About the Authors

Debby Laukens

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Michel Georges

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Cécile Libioulle

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Cynthia Sandor

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Myriam Mni

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Bert Vander Cruyssen

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Harald Peeters

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Dirk Elewaut

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Elewaut, Martine De Vos

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Martine De Vos

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Elewaut, Martine De Vos

martine.devos@ugent.be

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL MG DE MdV. Performed the experiments: CL CS MM. Analyzed the data: CL. Wrote the paper: DL MG. Patient recruitment: BVC HP DE.